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Re: How Many Emacs Users?
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Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: How Many Emacs Users? |
Date: |
21 Feb 2004 21:00:30 +0100 |
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Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Brad Collins <brad@studiojungle.net> writes:
> >
> >> I'm writing a investment proposal and it would be helpful to
> >> include the number of Emacs users (Xemacs etc) are out there.
> >>
> >> Are we talking in the tens, hundreds, a million or more?
>
> How would there be any way to know, unless GNU or FSF keep download
> statistics? And even that woul dnot be reliable, given that there are
> many precompiled binary distributions that GNU/FSF now nothing about.
> There's no sales receipts for Emacs...
About half the unix users, I'd say. The other half (minus some
epsilon) would be vi users. Well, remove MacOSX users from the unix
user count...
Between 2 and 4 million I'd say.
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Re: How Many Emacs Users?, Joe Corneli, 2004/02/21